Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Australian
Indigenous team win science's Eureka award
The Australian
Dr Ens says her “eyes were opened to Aboriginal Australia” when she first visited Ngukurr in 2008 as a postdoctoral researcher with Charles Darwin University. What started as ecological work quickly became social. “It became about the people, and the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal people paying for boom in Canberra's property prices
The Sydney Morning Herald
To complete the picture, Canberra also has one of the highest rates of homelessness in Australia with Aboriginal people (1.6 per cent of the Canberra population) representing 26 per cent of all people accessing homelessness services. Winnunga ...

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ABC Online
Mega prawn farm Project Sea Dragon nets Indigenous Land Use Agreement in northern Australia
ABC Online
Plans to build one of the world's largest prawn farms on a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory have taken a major step with native title holders supporting the project and signing an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) for its development ...

Herald Sun (blog)
Darebin council Australia Day ban divides Aussies
Herald Sun (blog)
It has been edifying to hear from Aboriginal leaders fed up with Australia Day being used as a “smokescreen” by those who lack the courage to face the serious issues afflicting indigenous communities. It's time we listened to a broader range of ...

Herald Sun (blog)
Miserable activists trashing Australia Day
Herald Sun (blog)
Even among indigenous Australians, only 31 per cent felt negative about Australia Day, while 53 per cent supported changing the date. Given the biased media coverage, you could be forgiven for thinking that every indigenous Australian was vehemently ...

Herald Sun
Aboriginal artist Stan Dryden says leave historical monuments alone but acknowledge indigenous achievement in ...
Herald Sun
“A lot to be proud of even in that short recent migration, and certainly that pride in our indigenous Australians and the history that they've built over many thousands of years,” he said. Melbourne Day Committee chairman Campbell Walker said Melbourne ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Finalists Named in Inaugural Indigenous Digital Excellence Awards
Pro Bono Australia
“Ranging from the founder of Australia's first Indigenous business accelerator, to an Elder who uses 3D printers to create cultural artefacts, and Darwin's most popular Airbnb host – the talent and ambition of the IDX Awards finalists is truly ...

The Australian
Albanese: 'Greater issues facing First Australians than inscriptions'
The Australian
Mr Albanese said this morning that there were bigger issues facing indigenous Australians than inscriptions on historical statues. “There are far greater issues facing the First Australians that what's on a statue,” Mr Albanese told Adelaide radio ...

New GO Foundation Indigenous student scholarships launched
EducationHQ Australia
“This is just the beginning of GO Foundation public school scholarships and we look forward to being able to support many more Indigenous students on their journey through school, into further education and employment,” Michael O'Loughlin added.

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The Australian
Drive to increase pre-settlement history lessons
The Australian
Labor MP Linda Burney, the first indigenous woman elected to the House of Representatives, said it was historically wrong to credit Cook with the discovery of Australia and pushed for the plaque to be changed. Bill Shorten fuelled the debate this week ...

The Australian
Burke and Wills statue latest in line for an amended plaque
The Australian
The plaque on the statue, before it was removed early last year, said Burke and Wills were “the first to travel the continent from south to north”, but indigenous Australians are known to have explored the country's interior for thousand of years ...

Sky News Australia
Govt called to address Indigenous abuse
Sky News Australia
Malcolm Turnbull's former chief adviser on indigenous affairs has called for the adoption of abused Aboriginal children, accusing the Prime Minster of ignoring their plight. Warren Mundine has told Sky News he is dismayed the country is obsessing about ...

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The Advertiser
Dean Jaensch: Australia Day should be a celebration of unity, not division and conflict
The Advertiser
There has also been a call that the notation on the statue of Captain Cook in Sydney should be sand blasted to remove the words that he “discovered Australia” on the ground that this is also offensive to Aboriginal people. How far should this ...

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Perth Now
Aboriginal activist Clinton Pryor's walk for justice
Perth Now
West Australian Clinton Pryor is walking from Perth to Canberra to protest against the forced closures of Indigenous communities. Picture: Nathan Hopkins, Phresh Creative. An admin team of four people run the operation from their base in Perth. Mr ...

NEWS.com.au
Debunking the myth of Australia Day
NEWS.com.au
“Australia Day has not always been on the 26th of January,” Macquarie University Professor Bronwyn Carlson, an expert in indigenous studies, told news.com.au. “It has over the past 100 years been celebrated on various days in various months so it is ...

SBS
Shorten goes cold on extra plaques for statues
The Australian
Mr Shorten played down his support for adding an extra plaque on the Sydney statue of Captain Cook which would acknowledge Aboriginal Australians inhabited the land before the British settlers. While the Labor leader yesterday said he had no opposition ...
Changing Australia's colonial statues 'rewards vandalism': PMSBS
'An additional plaque': Bill Shorten's plan to neutralise Captain Cook ...Brisbane Times
Vandalising numpties undermine the scope for reasoned debateCourier Mail
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SBS
Queensland moves to remove racist place names such as N***** Creek
SBS
The inscription in Hyde Park says the English explorer discovered Australia, which Grant said tells Aboriginal people that before 1770 they did not exist. "My ancestors were here when Cook dropped anchor. We know now that the first peoples of this ...

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The Educator
Indigenous education improving, but challenges remain
The Educator
Sarra is the founder and chairman of the Stronger Smarter Institute – a non-profit organisation delivering better outcomes for Indigenous, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children across Australia. Sarra addressed the conference about the impact ...

The Mandarin (registration)
5 areas of Australian public policy that saw substantial long-term impact
The Mandarin (registration)
Over the same period, indigenous female life expectancy increased by 0.6 years. However while the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous life expectancy is reducing somewhat, indigenous Australians can still expect to die 10 years earlier than ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Q&A recap: Forster says Tony Abbott is 'scaremongering' over gay marriage vote
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous singer Dan Sultan says Australia Day needs to be changed. Photo: ABC. End of the story? Not if Tony has anything to say about it. And while there may occasionally be too many Tonys in this debate, there is only one who seems hellbent on ...

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